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A judge sent a doctor to evaluate California’s largest ICE detention center. What he found

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is failing to provide adequate healthcare at a new detention center in California City, according to a report from an independent monitor at the facility, where detainees complained of missing medications and months-long delays to cancer treatment.

 

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Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds

The private prison company CoreCivic has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S.

 

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Why a private company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center instead of the sheriff

San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025, and records show the agency has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by the nation’s largest for-profit pr

 

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As California prisons face ‘wave’ of sex assault lawsuits, new audit highlights slow discipline

Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit from the state prisons’ inspector general.

 

California Supreme Court strikes down warning on LAPD citizen complaint forms

A warning that people see before filing complaints against Los Angeles police officers creates a barrier to free speech, the California Supreme Court ruled in a long-running lawsuit over the language.

 

California Supreme Court upholds law that protects rights of LGBT long-term care residents

The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.

 

For the first time, a California county removed its sheriff over misconduct allegations

For the first time in California history, a county sheriff has been removed from office.

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office Tuesday, nearly a year after a damning report from a retired county judge found that she likely violated the county’s policy on nepotism and conflicting relationships.

 

California Supreme Court decisions could impact decades of gang-related sentencing enhancements

The California Supreme Court handed down two decisions last week that could impact decades of sentencing for gang-related offenses and allow thousands of people to petition courts to reexamine their cases.

 

He didn’t pull the trigger. California Supreme Court sides with accomplice in felony murder case

Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn’t kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder — and the state used to allow prosecutors to charge accomplices with first-degree felony murder.

 

California’s jail population will rise thanks to Prop. 36. So will inmate deaths, advocates say

According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank.

 

She lost her job after talking with state auditors. She just won $8.7 million in whistleblower case

Tamara Evans found something fishy in the expenses filed by a San Diego contractor for the state’s police certification commission.